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[CITE: 25USC231]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
        CHAPTER 6--GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 231. Enforcement of State laws affecting health and 
        education; entry of State employees on Indian lands
        
    The Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as 
he may prescribe, shall permit the agents and employees of any State to 
enter upon Indian tribal lands, reservations, or allotments therein (1) 
for the purpose of making inspection of health and educational 
conditions and enforcing sanitation and quarantine regulations or (2) to 
enforce the penalties of State compulsory school attendance laws against 
Indian children, and parents, or other persons in loco parentis except 
that this subparagraph (2) shall not apply to Indians of any tribe in 
which a duly constituted governing body exists until such body has 
adopted a resolution consenting to such application.

(Feb. 15, 1929, ch. 216, 45 Stat. 1185; Aug. 9, 1946, ch. 930, 60 Stat. 
962.)


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 9, 1946, permitted proper State officers to invoke 
penalties of State compulsory school attendance against Indian children, 
their parents, or other persons in loco parentis.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
